Secret Invasion #3

The third chapter of Marvel's 2008 eight-part event series, Secret Invasion, arrives with a cover by Gabriele Dell'Otto that is quietly unsettling in its intimacy — Iron Man's armor-clad figure cradles a dark-haired woman in red against a dense, jungle-green backdrop, the tenderness of the pose at odds with the paranoid chaos the series promises. The lush, painterly rendering makes every shadow feel loaded with unspoken tension, perfectly capturing a story where trust itself is the battleground. With Brian Michael Bendis scripting and Leinil Francis Yu bringing the interior pages to life, this is the Skrull saga building toward something genuinely gripping.